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From: Andrew Schulman <andrex AT alumni DOT utexas DOT net>
Subject:  RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll
Date:  Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:26:39 -0500
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>   GOK why it works on glibc-based systems, but I guess it must, or the
> problem would surely have cropped up before.  Hmmmmm......

Simple: that part of the code is contained in an #ifdef HAVE_NO_ADDRINFO 
... #endif block, and so is only built on systems without a getaddrinfo
() function.  That includes Cygwin, not glibc, and maybe no other 
systems in common use.


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